Anthony Bourdain’s connections to Las Vegas run through countless chefs who have worked in our city, as well as several bars and restaurants he featured on his TV shows. As news broke of his death, and the circumstances that surrounded it, local chefs and restaurateurs reacted to the tragedy.
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Vegas talent agent Jaki Baskow signed Anthony Bourdain as keynote speaker at the Next Conference, a convention for the tech company Nutanix, at New Orleans Convention Center on May 10
Wolfgang Puck is hoping Spago’s proximity to Bellagio’s North Valet, off Flamingo Road, will make it an easy visit for locals.
If there were any doubt whether the new Spago, set to open the first week of June at the Bellagio, would have the star power of the old Forum Shops location, or the L.A. original, Jennifer Lopez laid it to rest before construction was even complete.
Days after new sexual misconduct allegations were made against celebrity chef Mario Batali, his company announced Friday that it will close its three Las Vegas restaurants July 27.
The dinner show and theatrical extravaganza show laden with stars from “RuPaul’s Drag Race.”
Bon Apetit’s Uncork’d food festival on the Strip launched Thursday afternoon with the Saber-Off at The Park promenade at the newly re-minted Park MGM.
Celebrity chef Giada De Laurentiis, the granddaughter of famed film producer Dino De Laurentiis, learned to cook in her family’s kitchens and in her grandfather’s restaurant.
Las Vegas Review-Journal columnist Robin Leach, an avid fundraiser for the Cleveland Clinic, will be honored with a Dom Perignon 21-cork salute during the UNLVino festivities.
Kind Heaven will present live music of all genres on four stages, with Perry Farrell himself heading up the booking. Its walking tour will focus on Southeast Asia cuisine and culture.
Vegas Voices is a weekly series featuring notable Las Vegans.
Star chefs Guy Fieri, Bobby Flay, Gordon Ramsay, Giada De Laurentiis and Steve Martorano contributed to the dinner menu and introduced a series of headliners throughout the three-hour program, which drew an all-invite crowd of 2,500 first responders, friends and family.
Invitations have begun to go out for a celebrity-chef “thank you” for first responders.
Giada De Laurentiis is preparing two dinners for more than $200,000 after Saturday’s wild bidding at Nevada Ballet Theatre’s Black and White gala.
Gordon Ramsay, an ex-soccer prospect in Scotland before a knee injury sidelined his athletic career, is still in top shape and fired up about his new restaurant.